ARM's new mobile processors are built for AI on the go

When ARM showed up at Computex last year, it brought a bundle of smartphone processors that pushed for better mobile VR. As you might've noticed, though, AI is one of the big new trends in mobile this year -- is it any surprise that the ARM's pushing that angle with its latest batch of silicon? First up is the Cortex-A75 CPU core, which the company says can deliver laptop-level performance without burning through any more power than existing mobile processors. ARM is promising a 50 percent boost in performance compared to the older A73 core, which should lend itself well to machine learning processes that run right on your devices. Remember: we're starting to see more smartphones optimize their performance on the fly based on behaviors sussed out by these kinds of algorithms.